Thursday, June 19, 2008

Happy Birthday Edward- A History Lesson!!

Novel Novice Twilight is all about the learning. Mix learning and Twilight together and you have a lovely feast of knowledge to devour. In honor of Edward's 107th birthday, which is actually tommorrow morning, we present our gift to all the Novel Novice websters- a video blog entitled "Happy Birthday Edward - A History Lesson." The blog discusses the major events that took place during Edward's natuaral lifetime: the progressive period, the rise of crime in Chicago, The Great War, and the Spanish Influenza. So go tell all your friends and your favorite fellow Twilight websters, that school is in session. We hope you enjoy!

12 comments:

Wow! That was really cool!!! I've actually been looking forward to this post all day. lol :)No, but seriously. That was great! I love it when you do these kind of things that somehow relates to school, in a fun Twilightish way of course. It just makes me love this site even more!!! I learned something cool today! I think I might go research a bit more on those subjects, they really fascinated me. It just makes me understand Edward's... um Edwardisms a bit more. That and I'm a total History geek. Hee.

It was good, though. I bravo'd and everything after you were finished. Good job!Oh, and BTW: You forgot about the draft. Edward's mother was very concerned because the draft age had changed to "18" and Edward was 17 at the time. I was waiting for you to explain something about that, and how Edward and other young men during that time period had dealt with that.

I absolutely love the idea of the history lesson! I already tried to do some research on my own - about the Edwardian time period, the history of Chicago and the role of the United States during the World War I - but I haven't really succeded.

Now, I only have one problem: I come from Germany and my ability to understand spoken English is - well - poor. ;)With the background music, it's nearly impossible for me to understand anything. And I am so eager to know what you are telling! I just know German and European history around 1918 and I can hardly imagine what it was like to live in America to this time...

Would it be possible to post maybe some of the main information as a written text?That would be awesome!If it's not possible - well, thank you, anyway!Greetings from Berlin!Opal

Hi, it's me again!Eventually, I figured out how to turn the background music off (I didn't realize that the music which disturbed me came from the site and not from the video - I feel pretty silly now...).And I understood quite well this time: Thank you so much, it was very, very interesting!Greetings, Opal

This was very insightful to the time period Edward lived in, and the trailer really helped show people that this was about Edward's life, pre-vampire.

Another good insight into this time peroid are movies like "Iron-Jawed Angels" and "My Boy Jack." I've watched both, and they give insight into that time peroid that is so very interesting... I want to thank you for this, and I hope you do more.

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